Garment-supporter



(No Model.)

R. GEMMELL. GARMBNT SUPPOR'TER.

No. 440,352. Patented Nov. 11, 1890.

MA1-A156556# ZW? @by/0% ROBERT GEMMELL, OF BROOKLINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES A. H. MAGOUN, OF MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

GARNIENT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 440,352, dated November 11, 1890.

Application tiled November 22, 1889. Serial No. 331,247. (No model.)

.T0 all whom. it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, ROBERT GEMMELL, a subject of Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain, and a resident of the town of Brookline, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massach usetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to garment-support ers composed of a stud to receive the stocking, &c., to be supported and a loop to engage and secure the stocking to the stud, all as well known.

The invention relates to the stud, its attachment to its carrying-strap andthe loop, and all substantially as hereinafter described, and stated in the claims.

ln the drawings, forming part of this specication, Figure 1 is a face View of the end portion ofthe strap and of the loop and an end view of the stud of this invention held on the strap. The loop and stud are disengaged. Fig. 2 is a similar View to Fig. 1, and the stud and loop are engaged. Fig. 3 is an edge view of Fig. 2, with the strap partly in longitudinal section. Figs. 4 and 5 show a modified construction of the stud, and Fig. 6 a modified construction of the loop of this invention, both hereinafter particularly explained.

In the drawings, A A2 is the stud, and B B2 B2 is the loop, both of this invention.

O is the strap. to which stud and loop are attached. The strap C is one of a combination of straps of a garment-supporter, all as well known, and neither it nor the straps in combination with it nor the means for attaching the supporter to the wearer form any part of this invention. The stud in both its head A andshank A2 is made of a continuous length of wire, which between its ends is closely coiled, making the head A, and has its opposite end portions twisted together, Fig.4 3, or left untwisted and bent toward each other, Figs. 4 and 5, forming the shank A2, or otherwise, in any suitable manner. Each portion of the shank A2 has a continuation A2, Figs. l and 2, which together embrace the width and the edges of the strap and lie against the side of the strap opposite to that from which the stud projects, and there they are secured to fasten the stud to the strap by a doubling of the strap over and upon them, and stitchingor otherwise securing the doubled portions of the strap together, Fig. 3, or by means of a separate piecev O2 of cloth, leather, dto., Fig. 4, in substitution for the doubled-over end of the strap, in either case covering the so-attached continuations A3 and concealing them not only from View but against contact with the skin of the wearer. The loop B B2 BS is made, preferably, of a continuous length of wire, and it has three operative sections, two opposite end sections B B3, and a central or intermediate section B2. The loop is attached by its end section B to the strap O, or it may be attached to a branch or added piece of the strap O, as Well known, or in any other suitable manner, but in any case so as to be free to be swung on the strap. The attached loop-section B is sufficiently open and of suitable shape for the head A2 of the stud to pass freely and easily through it even with the garment-such as a stocking-to be supported, placed upon the stud. The central loop-section B2 is open at its opposite ends, and it is narrower in width than either end loop-section B B3, but its width is suit* able to receive the shank of and thickness of the garment on the stud, and it is laterally yielding thereto, as hereinafter appears, as it (the stud) by its shank is moved in either direction along the central loop-section B2. The end loop-section B3 is of suitable width to receive the shank but not the head of the stud, so as, in co-operation with the laterally-yielding central loop-section B2, to hold the stud against accidental escape from it, either by the head of the stud passing through end loopsection B3 from side to side thereof or by the shank of the stud passing through the central loop-section B2 against the resistance of its laterally-yield ing sides. The lateral yielding resistance of the sides of the central loop-sec'- tion B2 is secured by providing it'either at both sides, Figs. 1 and 2, or at one side only, Fig. 6, with a coil or coils B4 of the wire of which the loop is made, or otherwise in any suitable manner. The loop is attached to the stud (the garment to be supported having roo been previously placed over the stud) by first placing the end loop-section B over the head of the stud, then forcing the central loop section B2 over and bringing the end loop-section B3 onto the shank of the stud, the whole resulting in a confinement against accidental detachment of the loop upon the stud and allowing the loop to be detached from the stud by forcing the central loop-section B2 over the shank of the stud or the shank of the stud therethrough against the lateral resistance of the sides of said loop-section. The coiled head of the stud, as is plain, is not liable to injure the garment placed upon it, as all parts of its surface are rounding, and no sharp edges, ends, or corners are presented.

The attachment of the stud in the manner described to the strap is convenient and eflicient, and as it secures the covering of the wire it is advantageous for the reasons before given.

rIhe continuations A3, Fig. 4, of the wire stud may pass directly through from side to side of the strap in lieu of around the strap, as before particularly explained.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

1. In a garment-supporter, a stud made of wire in a continuous length and between its ends coiled to form the head A and at its opposite end portions formed into a shank A2, suitably attached to the supporter, in combination with a loop held on the supporterand adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said stud, substantially as described, for

the purpose specified.

2. In a garment-supporter, the combination, Wit-h a stud, of a loop having three distinct sections continuous with and open to each other-to wit, two opposite end sections B B3 and an intermediate or central section B2'- the end section B adapted to be attached to the supporter and of a Width for the stud by its head to be entered into and passed through it from side to side, the central section B2 made with laterally-yielding sidewalls and having a width not greater than the diameter of the shank of the stud, and the end section B3 having a width greater than that of the central section and essentially less than the head of the stud, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

3. In a garment-supporter, a stud made of wire in a continuous length and between its ends coiled to form the head Aand at its opposite end portions formed into a shank A2, and having continuations A3 to serve as means of attachment of the stud to the supporter, in combination with a loop held on the supporter and adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said stud, substantially as described, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ROBERT GEMMELL.

Witnesses:

ALBERT W. BROWN, FRANCES M. BROWN. 

